Stellar Dragon: Godly Spelljammer Space Dragons in D&D ft.

[@DungeonDad]

This was so much fun to work on! AJ is truly the man when it comes to unpacking extensive lore. Be sure to check out his channel and the other video we made together about the infamous giant space hamster, also from Spelljammer! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqvYnatqit-laKM

[@Taylor1989s]

Giddy as a school girl I was seeing my two favorite dnd youtuber's I do hope you do this again.

[@DungeonDad]

Beard Bear I’d say it’s a safe bet there will be more collabs between us in the future!

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Do more narrated slideshows dad so I can watch

[@KS-PNW]

@@DungeonDad I hope so! Two great content creators talking about Spelljammer, hard to beat that 😉

[@Skunkfan76]

Casting wish at will? Were they high? What the fuck!

[@iangoff8844]

Okay, not picture this: A setting that takes place ON a stellar dragon. These things are so big im sure they are able to support life on them.

[@DungeonDad]

That's a really fun idea. Likea giant Zaratan!

[@iangoff8844]

@@DungeonDad A civilization that feeds off the body of a venerable stellar dragon. But due to its size it won't notice the little humans or whatever living off it's body.

[@mythmakroxymore1670]

Forget that. Go INSIDE ITS VEINS

[@umbra9472]

@@mythmakroxymore1670the monsters of this setting are its immune system.

[@tbohn10]

​@@mythmakroxymore1670 it's own river styx

[@ChazTheYouthful]

DM : The great dragon appears larger than any living thing you've ever dreamed of, covered in gemstones extending for miles beyond your sight, radiating with the power cosmic. Barbarian : *rage*

[@anthonywalton4708]

Barbarian’s Rage: Cowers

[@agentchaos9332]

Dragon: *Casts wish and wishes for barbarian to enter a peaceful state of bliss for 1d4 minutes

[@kadircanyalcnkaya9080]

Bard: seduce

[@constantinniculaie4881]

Purple Dragonborn sorcerer:*holds back barbarian* if you dare hurt him ill burn off your head with plasma

[@danielkubicek1323]

"Stellar Dragons suffer horrible, painful indigestion from lies." Finds a Stellar Dragon dead in wild space. "How'd it die?" Finds a tablet with its Facebook app still open...

[@vanconojl]

xD

[@doinyourmom7236]

yesyes, facebook bad, we get it

[@caritahearts2405]

The dragon tried to find where it could watch Goncherov and fucking died

[@doinyourmom7236]

@@caritahearts2405 What's Goncherov?

[@war.v27]

@@doinyourmom7236its the greatest mafia movie ever made, might as well not know what titanic is.

[@AJPickett]

This was so much fun to do! Looking forward to working together again soon :)

[@bardssinisterstories2607]

Yooooo, AJ! Big fan!

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

Indeed this was very well done, hope you two get the chance to do more in the future.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

As usual, you both do a wonderful job *bows*

[@stevewinkleburg5300]

You should definitely look at the discussion of stellar dragons in the AJ discord

[@KS-PNW]

Two great content creators talking about Spelljammer, hard to beat that!

[@sanddry738]

I can just imagine a prismatic dragon flying alongside a stellar one and just talking about the mortals in the worlds below

[@DungeonDad]

Just a casual workplace convo

[@karpmageddon4155]

@@DungeonDad No big. Just chatting by the water cooler. You may of heard of it, it's called the phlogiston. 😶

[@tinecroi]

Imagine a stellar dragon descended dragonborn. I think that would be interesting.

[@superblobfish2567]

I am now going to go make this, this comment (along with a few others like it) has prompted me to go make a full set of dragonborn for every dragon I think is resonable

[@Harrowed2TheMind]

Or a Half-Stellar Dragon! 😮

[@TheGladGolem]

SUCC-ROH-DAH!!!

[@The-Gent-in-the-hat]

@@superblobfish2567can you give us the stats block for a dragon born like that?

[@superblobfish2567]

@oriondoty5351 this is sort of a project I put away as I got busy, but one of these days probably

[@Jindomess]

I have a PC who doesn't know her deity. She pledged an oath to knowlage and left it up to me if it was just to the universe or a higher being. And I think you helped me find that higher being. Thank you

[@TheMountainLynx]

Now I want to play a Shardmind Warlock with a Stellar Dragon patron...

[@DungeonDad]

I would totally play that!

[@CultOfNothoon]

Remember, to make a wish to D&D Super Shenron, you must finish your request with "Peas and Carrots!"

[@Edhelistar]

Found the dragon-type to make a DnD lore-compliant Dragon Ball-style adventure~

[@BJGvideos]

Probably tons of Goku builds out there. I wonder how someone would play Bulma since she's strictly support.

[@Edhelistar]

@@BJGvideos Hmm... Probably a support Artificer. Reflavored to use capsules to cast the spells.

[@L0rdm3phiston]

​@@Edhelistarseems legit

[@sporf_sporf]

I ran an adventure where the Cult of the Dragon found a sleeping Stellar Dragon found in the center of a crystal sphere mostly filled with dirt and massive tunnels. And the party had to prevent the cult from turning it into a dracolich under the cult's control. If the cult had succeeded they would have had a spelljamming capable mobile base/superweapon.

[@amember7415]

You can make a quest that go like this, There is seven Crystal Spheres or Magic Orbs or Dragon Balls spread in the world, If you find all of them, a Stellar Dragon appear and grand you a wish, after wish granted the spheres, with magic way spreads again in to the world to be found again!

[@mythmakroxymore1670]

additional points for playing Scourge of the Universe when fighting this thing

[@thehillz726]

I wonder what this dragons relationship is to the solar and lunar dragons, the dragon gods and the contemplators is? Rivals? Alies? Also you could do something akin to Lovecraftian or death note style stories with the gems.

[@DungeonDad]

The hillz I could definitely see them getting into debates spanning years with contemplators regarding the nature of the multiverse itself. They’d also be the most likely beings to trade information with each other

[@thehillz726]

@@DungeonDad honestly that's more productive than what I initially assumed. I can honestly see them forming a relationship similar to what a gold dragon forms with Phoenixes and storm giants

[@bluicarys732]

Stellar Dragon uses body slam. Roll for damage of being hit by the state of Florida.

[@lepthymo]

Well, I just decided, the Luxon from the Wildmount setting is the previous Macado's shattered heart. It fits well with the Luxon's theme of searching for it's own truth, as well as being the source of dumanis, which is just manipulation of space and time. If Stellar dragons can make spheres, it makes sense that their hearts can function as a source and inspiration for the power to bend space and time. These dragons being more powerful than some gods also explain how tethering a soul to it could have the power to bypass the usual journey of going to the outer planes. Lastly, it would explain why there's only 1 known sphere with a Luxon, those Macados will not die often.

[@RendezvousWithRama]

The human form of a stellar dragon would basically be Dr. Manhattan.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Great Video. Always good to see the community working together. This is the first Dungeon Dad video I’ve watched and it’s got me wanting to see his vids on other creatures. Count me as a Subscriber gained. And as always, !!!ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLUESTICK!!!

[@DungeonDad]

Thanks so much for swinging by and sticking around!

[@lo64av]

My two favourite D&D ecologists collaborating

[@knightghaleon]

Since I've been using Sun and Moon dragons as Warlock patrons, I'm going to use this as another patron seeking knowledge and information. I imagine having it as a patron would be similar to having an immortal wizard/sorcerer as a patron.

[@foolycoolytheband]

These guys leave so much potential for some crazy high level DND adventures. if only there was more of it in 5th edition

[@G0thCrayon]

@ 19:30 "It is unknown how Stellar Dragons manage this within the Rainbow Ocean itself... ." They can mentally inhabit an entity within realms where this is easy enough to accomplish. You basically answered your question before asking it.... Proofreading, A.J.!

[@Persephon94]

My Gosh! Yes, just so much yes. Not just the monster this week, but I'd love to see you guys collab together again!

[@DungeonDad]

Chances are you’ll see us collab again sometime!

[@Persephon94]

@@DungeonDad I do hope so, or even if with another member of the community of creators.

[@theoriginalmess]

Great collab guys! This sets the stage for some truly epic high level quests. Looking forward to more co-ops between the online D&D community. On a separate note, hearing 'Corridors of Time' in AJ's background was a great throwback! Thanks guys!

[@OKatsby]

In my homebrew campaign, I gave all my PCs extra divine features (they're gods on primordial earth and all NPCs are gods from real-world mythology) and I gave my Norse-themed wizard a re-flavored Void Dragon Wyrmling as his familiar that becomes a Spelljammer when they enter the Astral Sea (my PCs don't know this yet). Nidhogg's origins are a big mystery in the campaign, and I hadn't settled on anything specific yet, but his being a splinter of a Great Stellar Wyrm is such a rad idea and I'm super hyped to build this out now.

[@jackhume1525]

Oh man, y'all just gave me an incredible epic ending to my Tyranny of Dragons in Eberron campaign. y'all rock.

[@BJGvideos]

How did it go?

[@NanoMayTry]

Epic stuff. I love anything and everything in space. Just reading and learning about flow reefs in the phlogiston. Imagine finding dragons there!

[@Baiswith]

ngl I was definitely hearing 'salad dragon' throughout xD

[@Mintyblu-cy4yr]

imagine if a mindflayer worm got into one of those

[@laffywaffy1989]

Or even a solar dragon that be scary

[@ardenorcrush649]

You can use them as a Galactus type of menace, which eats low-leveled worlds unable to defend themselves. Then the players need to convince their gods to indirectly help them, attack it with an allied fleet of Spelljammers (Star Wars, much?) or get an "Ultimate Nullifier" mcguffin, just like the Fantastic Four, to avoid his Wish spam. All three ways can be used simultaneously to distract or weaken the dragon, making it actually defeatable.

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

Well, this takes the term “World Serpent” to a whole new level. Also they are Super Shenron?

[@zachariaravenheart]

Thank you for this. I have decided that a Stellar Dragon will be the leader of a guild in my campaign world called the Quaesitors. That’s Latin for seekers, by the way :D

[@DungeonDad]

Ravenheart sounds like a perfect fit!!

[@zachariaravenheart]

Dungeon Dad Absolutely! The Quaesitors task is to seek for knowledge, after all. (Forgot to mention that earlier)

[@cameronf5893]

Honestly I clicked on this video thinking "so what? Its a space dragon." Well I was wrong lol you pick some really great monster to review. I've like 5 out the 5 videos I've watched so far:) keep them long form too. There's so much to learn :)

[@HobbylessWolf]

It's really cool to see you two collab, specially on such an awesome project! Can't wait to see what else you guys have in store for us! ^^

[@DungeonDad]

We definitely had fun, so I’d say it’s a good bet we’ll be doing another one sometime soon!

[@wolf2403]

@@DungeonDad Time to pull in Rhexx as well

[@blackgriffinxx]

SO they are the watcher of D&D .

[@verticalflats2816]

A J looked like he had a shadow moving behind him.

[@HobbylessWolf]

Maybe he had! O.O I hope he can turn undead! xD

[@DungeonDad]

Fortunately he was able to keep making his strength saves.

[@HowtoRPG]

This was very cool. Great to see two of my favourite channels working together.

[@LittleCrowYT]

24:10 I know this video is 3 years old but y'all should start a podcast 😈 even just one or two videos a month would probably make a lot of people happy, and y'all could tackle really big projects/lore videos for those

[@phurbur]

Wow, two Spelljammer vids released at once today! I only knew a little about them, so this was mind-blowing. And Spelljammer/Transformers crossover? F*** yeah! Seems like with Eberron these dragons could mutually manifest an entire semi-sentient planetoid or demiplane with warforged who can wildshape into elven skiffs or flitters. I may have to start DM'ing to homebrew this into a campaign. Thanks for illuminating the lore and for inspiration guys.

[@DungeonDad]

Happy to be of service!

[@karpmageddon4155]

In all likelihood the progenitor dragons of Eberron were stellar dragons. The largest among them are certainly big enough to become a planet, especially two of them combined. And their bodies are covered in gems (dragon shards) as well as possess the necessary magics to create entire worlds. But why make a world? Knowledge of course. Why gleam the knowledge of worlds already made when you can engineer your own growing library. Perhaps they even wanted to see who would truly "win" between good versus evil, by creating a vacuum where creatures could decide for themselves rather than have meddling cosmic entities pulling at their strings. Hence why Eberron is cut off from everywhere else and why alignment is much more fluid. As for Transformers, in D&D the spawning stone (basically the allspark/cube) was created by Primus to bring order to Limbo. Hell, Mechanus and the modrons can already be considered proxies for Cybertron and the transformers. So a crossover is already baked into D&D, just waiting to be used. 🤓

[@evanthiss256]

Spelljammer Confirmed, LOL. But actually thank you so much for everything you do. It's so helpful and fun to listen to.

[@WallyDM]

This was pure collaboration gold! Looking forward to the two of you working together again... Well done!

[@mikeage9824]

After watching aj for years it's awesome to see this awesome team up. Love both your guys channels now and you are both huge sources of inspiration for running my own game. Thanks for all you guys do

[@Greenscyth22]

I wonder if we all thought about rancid milk or something else equally foul all at once, if we would make a Stellar Dragon wretch? : P

[@sanddry738]

I feel like that’d be pretty funny. Players meet a newborn stellar dragon who flies alongside their ship and asks them to please *please* make one of the crew members stop thinking about rotten space hamster

[@DungeonDad]

sanddry that’s a great excuse to have one of these guys visit the party. “For the love of the gods please tell your bard to think about something wholesome for once.”

[@agentchaos9332]

A stellar dragon wretching would have continental consequences

[@dylanbrewer8605]

AJ Pickitt looks like Chris Metzen.

[@quynlanvuorensyrja5484]

“Hi there, mr. big fancy space dragon. Meet my friend. He’s a pathological liar.”

[@bardssinisterstories2607]

Ah, so big brain long bois. For the next one, do the Oriental Dragons from the Fiend-folio and the Oriental Adventures Sourcebook. Please.

[@draxthemsklonst]

Lung (dragon)?

[@bardssinisterstories2607]

@@draxthemsklonst That, though there are more.

[@dragonballtalk8527]

@@bardssinisterstories2607 aj pickett got them videos

[@lunatic0verlord10]

14:11 Amusingly, they later added Greatwyrms in 5e.

[@morrigankasa570]

With the Lies thing, what if the person giving the information thought they where telling truth but it turned out to be a Lie? I think that could be an interesting idea and way someone/party realizes they where lied to if the bit of information was from a different source originally.

[@fishinatube9028]

Surprise: these end up being the astral forms of the flumphs.

[@mathewmcgee8029]

Super cool to see you two working together.

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

*Relevant and Supportive Comment*

[@DungeonDad]

Thoughtful reply in thanks of your support and genuine interest.

[@shanevitak4310]

@@DungeonDad human speaking

[@IanWright_au]

I was all ready to point out that stellar dragons would not be summoning creatures from other planes into the phlogiston then AJ confirmed they can do this despite the normal restrictions. I think in my game I would speculate they actually create their own copy of the entities they 'summon' rather than actually breaking the laws of the phlogiston. They would have a vast repertoire of monsters that they would have learnt of over their long age and would know exactly what creatures fear what to be able to tailor the 'summon' to what creature is annoying them currently. Because they are actually creating the creature they could also 'summon' creatures with unique traits uncommon to the species to trick and fool their opponent.

[@AJPickett]

That is an excellent explanation for an inexplicable ability!

[@mikeypatton4976]

This fits perfectly with a Draconic God in my hombrew setting. I needed a very powerful Dragon and was struggling on a statblock for it. Thanks a ton!

[@KS-PNW]

First I've heard of this channel (I came from TMG) but, I really liked this video. Curious to see more of your channel.

[@DungeonDad]

Thanks! Welcome to the crew!

[@KS-PNW]

@@DungeonDad really glad I found your channel, been working my way through your work :)

[@KS-PNW]

​@@DungeonDadthanks for the welcome lol. You don't even know how many hours I've spent listening to you in the last 3 years (helped me get through 18 months of graveyard shifts for one thing)

[@INNNDY]

Thank you so much!!!! I’ve been running a 5e adapted spelljammer campaign, and finding content and unique/unexpected high level monsters has been an absolute nightmare.

[@LikeTheBirb]

568 miles? that puts the scale of *some* of the arts right out that's less than the width of Texas

[@thedragonknight3600]

So hold on. You mean to tell me that the only way to repair the Rod of Law is to use the horn of the biggest, most powerful Stellar Dragon in the multiverse? And that To forge a cage of concordance to contain the Shard of Ultimate Evil, which getting to the damn thing would be a feat in and of itself, you have to kill a number of these impossibly large, ridiculously strong creatures and pull Diamonds from their bodies? What the actual hell?? That shit is insane! No wonder it's never been done, i doubt anyone's even gotten past step 1!!

[@hurricanemarigolds2818]

Probably the only ways are to convince these dragons to give up the horn and gems voluntarily or enlist the help of as many liars as possible to cripple the dragon with digestive pains.

[@jeroen1989]

I like the concept of a party finding the young astral dragon already injured, but giving them the dilemma of saving their world by finishing it off this cute baby (still very tough battle, as the dragon is only limited in flying for example) OR save it, get betrayed and having to find away of dispose of it in another way.

[@blacktemplarhelbrecht]

Yo been watching you for a year now and I use your monster stat blocks in all the games I dm you are my favorite dnd KZbinr keep up the great work bro! 👍

[@barbatosmcmurderton4209]

So, if you really want to make a hell of a villain for an epic campaign, have some batshit insane Illithids make a Brain Eater Dragon out of one of these guys.

[@sporf_sporf]

Cult of the dragon making a dracolich.

[@barbatosmcmurderton4209]

@@sporf_sporf You're sick. I fecking love it

[@Fromaginator]

Stellar Dragons out here playing magic the gathering IRL

[@DungeonDad]

Actual literal planeswalkers

[@Fromaginator]

@@DungeonDad Ugin and Nicol bolas in all versions of reality

[@draxthemsklonst]

@@Fromaginator Always pictured them as somewhat like twin astral dragons. Well, at least a similarity in the egg. The Gem of Becoming/Meditation Realm being their egg...that Bolas turned into a sort of Ioun Stone. I wonder if Cosmic Dragons have a similar egg-plane?

[@josephweymon8020]

Thanks for the video, & the stat block included in this description. Just recently learned of you from the TMG, & I'm glad did. Keep up the good work, & you've definitely gained a new subscriber.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Good job, guys 👏👏👏👏

[@nicolegriff]

Great channel, great video!

[@hircenedaelen]

Adapting these guys to the new spelljamar lore

[@worldsofchaosplays]

I wonder if Stellar Dragons will be coming back in Spelljammer 5E ? I preordered the set so we shall see this week!

[@ryderma1]

Liking these team up videos. Good work guys and Thank You.

[@kashbaldauf1433]

The younger dragons could also be used as ones who don’t know any better to not interfere with mortals

[@connermckeone4915]

Why does the Great Stellar Wyrm have Truesight of 60ft, it's several hundred miles long, the range of it's truesight probibly doesn't reach the end of it's eyelids.

[@royjaskowski905]

Love the spell list… wish at will. No need to say more.

[@genobreaker1054]

My favorite creature in D&D!!!

[@jackiesantos2121]

Space dragons yeah Godlike level power

[@das_ttv3411]

*casts banishment on AJ*

[@DungeonDad]

DAS if only he didn’t have legendary resistance!

[@vadaritis]

*casts dispel magic on the banishment*

[@micahshanks8894]

Umm, anyone else getting Dragon Ball Z/Shenron/Eternal Dragon ideas from the Stellar Dragon...? Maybe you have to collect some of it's lost jewels and it will grant wishes.... Oh. Nevermind. I just watched the rest of the video...

[@jessechavez5602]

Ima give the macado diarrhea with paradoxes… it can’t be true or false…

[@Kadranos]

For reference, the Stellar Dragon chief or one the largest great wyrms would be visible on Mars from Earth through a telescope, and any wyrm or great worm on a planet would be visible from orbit.

[@tomkerruish2982]

I'm guessing a Talisman of the Sphere wouldn't be of use against a stellar dragon's naturally-occurring Sphere of Annihilation, but what about a Rod of Cancellation? Could that save you?

[@DungeonDad]

That, is a VERY good question. I think that would ultimately come down to the DM's discretion at that point. Personally, I would probably allow it to work, but with some type of save to prevent the Rod from being damaged since it's so much raw power.

[@lorekeeper685]

threr are stat sheets for deities in 3.5e deities and demigods and faiths and pantheons maybe compare them?

[@BJGvideos]

What if someone is telling misinformation but don't know it?

[@lepthymo]

This looks awesome, I'll check the vid now, but ai'm pretty sure the spell attack mod and DC are too low, they should be 8+int/wis+prof so at least like 24 for the last one.

[@DungeonDad]

I think you're right on that! Dragon math is hard

[@SSSyndrome214]

Thanks!

[@Kburnzzzzzzz]

the entire video i was like this is familiar, while goku is standing behind me🤣

[@Insane-Howl-Cowl]

Epic team-up!

[@L0rdm3phiston]

Great double video

[@kannathraymaker]

Why not have the stellar dragon use one of his unlimited wishes to shapechange into a humanoid form himself that has his normal abilities.

[@AJPickett]

Well, while wish can be used to mimic the effect of any other spell of 8th level or lower and Shapeshift is a 9th level spell, I think the main barrier to a Stellar dragon doing this would be psychological.. a human could shapeshift into the form of a flea or microbe, but... well would you want to?

[@kannathraymaker]

AJ Pickett if I were an immortal being that literally fed on knowledge, I think I would. As a fragile human being, no I wouldn’t. I guess I should have said polymorph instead of shape change ... I didn’t mean to imitate the spell shapechange, I meant to change shape ie polymorph. With unlimited wishes you would be like the witches on Bewitched!

[@tomkerruish2982]

@@AJPickett In Disney's The Sword in the Stone, Merlin did just that during a wizard battle with Madam Mim. She failed her Constitution saving throw and became rather ill.

[@Gravitycrazy]

914km that's a big boy, just for reference I'm Canadian and 914km is the west coast of British Columbia to the west side of Manitoba

[@anathema1828]

Incredible!

[@daverhoden445]

One could create a D&D version of the MCU. The corpse of one of these dragons sounds a lot like Knowhere, with an Arcane playing the part of The Collector. The gems are obviously Infinity Stones and there's no shortage of Mad Gods in D&D. Maybe those Gauntlets of Ogre Power the party found when they were just starting out are a teensy bit more special than they thought.

[@donnyrokk]

I've been having trouble finding information about this dragon. Other than the AD&D Spelljammer Monster Manual, has anything else been written about the Stellar Dragons?

[@KevinVideo]

Unfortunately not. The Spelljammer Appendix is the only book that mentions them.

[@Carcerian]

I'm guessing they are NOT fans of Illusionists, Mimics or Dopplegangers? Fraz-Urb-Luu and Baelzebub must also on the top of their most wanted entities...

[@seanb.6793]

I’m listening to these while I work, and I swear, it sounds like he’s saying SALAD dragon. And now I want a DND monster salad 🥗 🐉 dragon. 😊

[@legendaryseph9406]

I was thinking a cool plot point could be an opposing party somehow chained or blinded a great wyrm level stellar dragon to do its will, however it doesn’t have complete control over it so the view times the party would come in contact with it it would actually help them and the like, hoping that they’d free it from its bindings

[@jessechavez5602]

Send me against the big daddy… me and my army of clones will finally have a fair fight

[@porakiyadraekojin3390]

So....here's an idea: dead stellar dragons BECOME the crystal spheres, creating new "galaxies/worlds" within

[@jmd9402]

imagine a story where the party tries to kill a stellar dragon or searches for the corpse of an already dead one to close the abyss and the nine hells forever?

[@G0thCrayon]

A wounded Stellar Dragon Wrymling? Imagine if a Deep Spawn found out about THAT and carried out it's dinner plans... Talk about bad news on an unfathomable scale.

[@ThatReplyGuy]

So, like an actual black hole, they feed on information.

[@ericgrimm7833]

The party spends weeks irl looking for the scrolls that all magic knowledge is built on then heads to the stellar dragon meeting place to try to use the scrolls to bye the heart diamonds needed to seal the demons forever cool plot

[@dakotastein9499]

in my pantheons of atmara setting (where the players play as former gods stripped of most of thier power) i played a Cosmic/creation god named ladon whose original form was something akin to a stellar dragon....though he didint feed on thoughts and had more of a "starry" apearence in a literal sense.